Children Social Development

Building trust in family helps children disclose harms done to them

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A family environment that has friendly conversation, care, company and love will go a long way to make a child comfortable to peacefully express his or her ideas and worries.

It is different from a home that entertains anger, fights, foul exchange of words, physical violence, absent parenting, and others. Children are distressed by these negative emotions and are affected by them, sometimes in ways that even years of therapy can hardly heal.

Do we abuse the internet and blame it?

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Abuse of the internet can be in a diverse spectrum, diversified into consumption as well feeding of the internet with materials. In terms of consumption, it can be considered an abuse of the internet when its potentials are not put to full use, or are redirected into the opposite of the good it can achieve. On the other hand each of us can unknowingly be contributing abusively to the internet. There are of course many people whose project is just that, as they profit from it. We can however learn how to minimize this negative contribution to the internet as regular people.

Collective and urgent duty to safeguard mother languages – Part 2

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A positive ideology behind a language is important for its life and survival. When this positive ideology is communicated, the love, passion and sense of ownership are deepened, especially among young people.

Researchers who studied reverse language shift say positive ideology and positive beliefs associated with speaking the language together with a strong cultural support are the two factors that most influence positive language growth among youth.

Collective and urgent duty to safeguard mother languages (Part 1)

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Children can be encouraged to learn foreign languages even without being told their mother languages are not good enough. This way they will keep their love towards their mother languages and will not feel shameful to use them.

Isn’t ‘Sharenting’ is a ticking time-bomb in our digital age?

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This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper, Tanzania on February 11, 2025 Shimbo Pastory It is common today to see in social media, picture and video content involving parents or caregivers and their children. There are varieties of this content, on one end having normal conversations, surreptitious/secret recordings, staged funny skits, pranks, etc. to … Read more

World Animal Day: Concerns on care, abuse and cruelty need collective action

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Shimbo Pastory Globally the world animal day is marked on October 4 each year as a social education initiative to help treat animals better. There is no doubt regarding an assumed supremacy of the human person, supported by holy books, which renders nature, including animals at the human person’s merciless and ruthless greed. While use … Read more

Utumwa na mtazamo wa kisasa na zamani

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Kwa sasa, haina maana yoyote kukaa na kusimuliana historia ya mambo yaliyotokea nyuma, hasa yale yenye kuleta maumivu ya kijamii, bila kuyatazama kwa mtazamo mpana wenye maono ya mbeleni. Hii ni nadharia nzuri kuitumia katika kuizungumzia historia pana iliyopo nyuma ya pazia la historia ya utumwa.
Historia ya utumwa ni kielelezo dhahiri kwamba bila kujisimamia wenyewe kwa umoja wa nia tunakuwa ni vibaraka wa watu wenye tamaa, ukweli ambao upo wazi hata katika maisha ya kila siku.

Make interesting literature readily available to promote literacy | World Literacy Day

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We need to not only avail books, but also to maximize the available technology for improving literacy and reading in our country. Inasmuch as a good cause is propagated from above, interested stakeholders can join hands to make the dream come true.

Need to challenge the deep-rooted mental health stigma in society

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Mental health disorders is an umbrella term covering a variety of issues like: Depression, anxiety disorders, disruptive behaviour, dissocial disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders (behavioural and cognitive), eating disorders, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and others.

It is time to explore why Africans struggle with accepting their natural beauty

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This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania on July 30, 2024. Shimbo Pastory and Raymond Joel Beauty has been a human concern for generations of humanity’s existence. It is as old as humanity itself, and has played a major role for the human society, even in it’s diversity, in integration and societal … Read more